Digitalisierung und IPR

This volume brings together the contributions of early career scholars at the 5th Young Scholars' Conference on Private International and Procedural Law, held in Heidelberg in 2025 under the theme "Digitalisation and PIL: Local Connections in Boundless Spaces." The authors explore how digital technologies challenge the foundations of conflict of laws and procedure. Johannes Weigl and Loïc Bréhin analyse the conflict-of-law dimensions of the EU's digital regulatory framework, from GDPR and the DSA andDMA to the Data Act, DGA and AI Act, and demonstrate how classical methods may still offer solutions. Christina Lemke proposes an innovative application of the lex monetae to the digital euro. Piotr Wilinski, Maciej Durbas and Agatha Brandão investigate the use of artificial intelligence in cross-border legal services, alternative dispute resolution and academic research. Naivi Chikoc Barreda turns to online notarisation, a phenomenon still unfamiliar in Germany but of increasing relevance in transnational practice. Finally, Linda Kuschel and Adrian Hemler emphasise that issues such as electronic service of documents and the exercise of judicial functions abroad require international procedural law to reaffirm its foundations in public international law. The volume demonstrates how digitalisation not only generates technical and regulatory questions but also prompts fundamental methodological questions within private international law.